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Astronomers Discover Colossal 'Super Spiral' Galaxies

Project News • March 17th, 2016

A new class of behemoth spiral galaxies has been uncovered using NASA archival data.

Caltech Asteroid Hunter Gives TED Talk

Project News • February 19th, 2016

Caltech staff scientist Carrie Nugent, who discovers and characterizes asteroids utilizing data from the NASA NEOWISE program, presented her research as one of the selected speakers at the 2016 TED Conference this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Most Luminous Galaxy Is Ripping Itself Apart

Project News • January 15th, 2016

In a far-off galaxy, 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a ravenous black hole is devouring galactic grub. Its feeding frenzy produces so much energy, it stirs up gas across its entire galaxy.

Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to Schools across America

Project News • January 6th, 2016

How many high school teachers and students can say they have presented their astronomy research alongside professional scientists at an international conference?

Galvanized by Genuine Research Experiences, NITARP Program Alumni Flock to International Astronomy Conference

Project News • January 6th, 2016

Look around at this year's winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Kissimmee, Florida and you're bound to run into a past, present or future participant in the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP). For more than a decade now, the program has paired educators...

NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

Project News • January 15th, 2015

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013. Eight of the discoveries have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on...

NASA’s Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds in Habitable Zones

Project News • January 6th, 2015

How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more than 4,000 candidate planets for further study -- the 1,000th of which was...

NEOWISE Spots a Comet That Looked Like an Asteroid

Project News • July 23rd, 2014

Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) has been observed by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft just one day after passing through its closest approach to the sun. The comet glows brightly in infrared wavelengths, with a dust tail streaking more than 62,000...

Spring 2015 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship

Community News • June 9th, 2014

The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech announces the availability of six-month graduate student fellowships beginning in the Spring of 2015. The program is designed to allow students from other institutions to visit IPAC-Caltech and perform astronomical research in close...

NASA's WISE Findings Poke Hole in Black Hole 'Doughnut' Theory

Project News • May 22nd, 2014

A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

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